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(603) 852 79 35 akasi-commercial@akasigroup.com 1, Tara boulevard # 101, Nashua NH 03062 United States

Course details

Public Speaking: Compelling Speeches & Presentations

Course 00029

Description

Public speaking is required in almost every business role, but a variety of factors cause many professionals to struggle when talking in front of an audience. In this training course, you learn how to strengthen your speaking skills, build your confidence, and establish rapport with the audience — all while practicing and delivering presentations in a safe environment with personalized feedback.

What you'll learn

  • Speak publicly in a convincing, confident, and concise style
  • Deliver dynamic and effective presentations
  • Employ a method to create materials that support a compelling speech
  • Build audience rapport through eye contact, vocal delivery, and body language
  • Sharpen your public speaking skills by integrating feedback

Pre-requisites

  • • Basic familiarity with PowerPoint
  • • Prior public speaking experience

Curriculum

Hooking the audience

Identifying the critical need

Presenting the key ideas concisely

Explaining the payoff

Calling for action

Informing

Persuading

Motivating

Entertaining

Determining your baseline public speaking skills

Taming fears and increasing confidence through practice and preparation

Leveraging your own personality and style

Increasing your awareness and abilities by evaluating other speakers

Integrating audience feedback to fine-tune your delivery

Setting objectives

Assessing and addressing the needs of your audience

Matching purpose and point to the audience

Creating the storyboard model

Rapidly capturing presentation ideas

Structuring content for clarity

Converting mind maps into presentations

Applying learning theory for optimal information transfer

Employing 7+/-2 rule to aid comprehension

Volume vs. retention

Identifying the key points

Making text, color and graphics work together

Limiting content to increase effect

Employing information graphics to simplify complex data

Avoiding visual traps

Directing the audience's natural eye movement

Moving dynamically within the presentation space

Engaging the entire audience with effective eye contact

Synchronizing gestures to the verbal message

Adding pitch modulation and dynamics

Reinforcing points with pauses and silence

Reducing verbal distractors

Five opening strategies to spark interest

Motivating the audience with a call to action

Stimulating participation with preplanned questions

Conveying content through topical questions

When to ask rhetorical, group or targeted questions

Reward, restate and respond

Keeping your answers short and simple

Getting back on track after an unplanned interruption

Pre-empting "hot-button" questions

Staying aware of the message you are conveying

Priming the pump when there are no questions

Effective rehearsal techniques

Incorporating audience feedback to improve a presentation

Staying within your time limit

Opening dynamically to create a winning first impression

Applying your public speaking toolkit

Get this Course

3895,00 €


  • • 20 hours instructor-led training course
  • • After-course coaching available

  • • No schedule defined yet